Method of making screw hooks, eyes, &amp;c.



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FREDERICK E. WARNER, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WARNER BROTHERS COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CON- NECTICUT.

METHOD OF MAKING SCREW HOOKS, EYES, 8w.

Original application filed July 17, 1914,

I '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK E. WAR- NER, a citizen of the United States of Amerion, and a resident of Bridgeport, Fair-field county, State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Making Screw Hooks, Eyes, &c., of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a method of making screw hooks, eyes, etc., having positioned on the stem thereof a gage or stop collar of suitable formation, such as described and illustrated in my copending application Serial No. 851,431, filed July 17, 1914.

More particularly the invention comprises the step of aflixing a disk-like gage or stop collar at a predetermined point on the stem of the screw hook, eye, etc. by swaging or otherwise combinedly compressing in a suitable die or other machine to thereby form a groove at such predetermined point on the stem and a ring-shaped portion on the gage or stop collar protruding within such groove.

My invention may be carried out 1n one form thereof by positioning the screw hook, eye, etc. in a die block forming the female die and slipping the disk over the threaded end of the screw hook, eye, etc., and then applying proper compressional forces by means of a male die to simultaneously form the desired groove on the stem of the screw hook, eye, etc., at the predetermined point and the ring-like portion on the disk protruding into said groove. It is preferable in such operation to employ a cylindrical disk and shape such cylindrical disk into the desired final form, such as cup shaped, during the procedure of forming the groove and ring connection.

Other features and objects will be more fully understood from the following description and accompanying drawlngs, in which Figure 1 illustrates one procedure in carrying out my invention by means of male and female dies, the positions of the parts indicating the stage previous to applying compressional forces; Fig. 2 illustrates the same at the stage subsequent to applying the compressional forces; and Fig. 3 shows a screw eye having a cup shaped gage or stop collar applied thereto in accordance with the procedure indicated by Figs. 1 and 2.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1915.

Serial No. 851,431. Divided and this application filed October 28. 1914. Serial No. 868,942.

Referring to the drawings, the specific illustration of my invention shows the man ner of forming a cup shaped gage or stop collar onto the stemof a screw eye at a predetermined point. In this instance, the screw eye 1 is provided with a roll-threaded end 2. The female dieblock comprises the separable parts 3, 4, having conjoint grooves 5, 6, for receiving the eye portion of the screw eye 1 and retaining the same Within so that the stem 7 of screw eye 1 projects upwardly through the opening 8 of the female die block 3, 4. In this case, the cylindrical disk 9 is used from which to form the desired cup shaped stop or collar. The opening 10 of disk 9 is of relatively large cross section in proportion to the cross section .of the stem 7 of screw eye 1. Accordingly, it will be clear that my invention is particularly adaptable for screw eyes, screw hooks, etc., which are provided with a roll-thread, the maximum cross section of such rollthread being consideiubly greater than the cross section of stem 7 of the screw eye, hook, etc.

The male die block is provided with the central opening 12 to receive the screwthreaded end 2 of the screw eye 1. The face of the male block 11 comprises the ringshaped portion 13, positioned considerably outwardly with respect to the contour of opening 12, the inwardly extending face portion 14 and the outwardly extending portion 15 in cooperative correspondence to the face 19 of female die 3, 4, whereby the material of the disk 9 and the stem 7 of screw eye 1 are subjected to compressional forces to form the groove 16 ring-portion 17 and the skirt portion 18 of the cup-shaped gage or stop collar. The relations of female block 3, 4, and the male block 11 to the disk 9 and screw eye 1 prior to the application of the compressional forces are indicated in Fig. 1.

Up on applying the compressional forces, the face portions 13, 14, and 15 will enter within the opening 8 of male block 3, 4, whereby the groove 16 will be formed at the predetermined location on stem 8 of eye 1 and the ring portion 17 formed on disk 9 protruding within said groove 16. At the same time the skirt portion 18 will be formed in accordance with the desired shape of the gage or stop collar. Upon separating the maybe made Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

That I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l 1. The method of producing a hook or like article having a stop collar, which comprises passing an annulus of compressible material onto the stem of said article and positioning said annulus on said stem at a predetermined point bycompressional forces to form a groove on said stem at said predetermined point, and a protruding portion on said annulus extending into said groove.

2. The method of producing a hook or like article having a stem integral throughout its length and a stop collar at a predetermined point on said stem, which comprises passing an annulus of compressible material onto said stem of the article and positioning said annulus at the predetermined point by compressional forces acting substantially simultaneously on said collar and said stem to form a groove Within and extending substantially completely around said stem, and a protruding portion on said annulus extending into said groove.

3. The method of producing a hook or like article having a stem integral throughout its length and a stop collar positioned at a predetermined point on said stem, which comprises passing a flat annulus of compressible material onto said stem, positioning said annulus at the predetermined point by applying compressional forces substantially simultaneously on said annulus and said stem to form a groove Within the body of said stem and extending substantially completely around said stem, and a protruding ring portion on said annulus extending into said groove and shaping said annulus to the form of the purposes desired.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FREDERICK E. WARNER.

Witnesses: MARGARET B. LIGHT,

JAMES J. HILLEGAS.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). G. 

